With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.




Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
The Los Angeles Issue

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
FLOOD Staff

10 LPs that made a strong case for the extended format.

MUNA’s lead singer wrapped up her What a Relief solo debut tour in her hometown of Chicago this week.

10 titles that provided exclusive access to some of music’s greatest mysteries.

The special programming of eclectic holiday tunes spanning indie, punk, soul, electronic, hip-hop, and beyond kicks off this Saturday, December 21, and runs through the rest of the year only on FLOOD FM.

The 10 most invigorating series among a new era of prestige television.

10 movies that offered new perspectives on familiar themes.

The Americana group’s co-founder plays “Jungle Full of Ghosts” and “Running” from his third solo album, Para Llevar, which is out now via Normaltown and New West Records.

Smashing Pumpkins at KROQ Acoustic Chrristmas at Kia Forum in Los Angekes, CA / photo by Skylar Watkins
The Smashing Pumpkins, Franz Ferdinand, The Linda Lindas, Jimmy Eat World, and more from the annual LA event’s 33rd year.

Fontaines D.C., Kacey Musgraves, Justice, The Last Dinner Party, and more top our individual ballots.

The Brooklyn neo-psych rockers toured the UK, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands in support of their recent sophomore album Illuminator.

10 stunning collaborations and bold solo cuts that defined the year.

The songwriter gives an acoustic performance of the two lead singles from her upcoming LP Forever on her back porch.

50 records that dispel the notion that the 2020s will be remembered as the decade of the single.

FLOOD presented the LA band’s only hometown headlining show of the year on Sunday, with support from Forest and Finnish Postcard.

The multi-talented “Model, Actress, Whatever” brought The Sparklemuffin Tour to Indianapolis this week.

Ten films and series that approached the most engaging untold stories among various genres and time periods.

Featuring cameos from fantasy of a broken heart, Venus Twins, Tempers, Drew McDowall, and more from the recent show in Ridgewood.

Brandon Gomez gives a night-time performance of the GEM cut “Top of the World” while visiting his home on Hawaii’s main island.

Their take on Purple Mountains’ “Snow Is Falling in Manhattan” appears on Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips’ new holiday album with Sonic Boom, A Peace of Us.

With their new album Dust out today, twins Elektra and Miranda Kilbey walk us through some favorite spots in their Swedish hometown.